MKO Internet Relay Kombat: Friday Night Fights (Week 36)
It was a dramatic week for Internet Relay Kombat as the Champion confirmed his win with a confident defense, while down the list the League experienced its first competition
fatality!
Scott-Howell may have been KFL Champion before, beating some of the best fighters on his road to glory, but an abrupt victory in Week 35 left some people wondering if luck had a hand. An impressive
+5 finish put the exclamation point on a defense that came at the expense of
redman's hopes to hit the top -- looking for a fairytale ending in his first Championship match, earned last week with a big win against former-champ, jack4813.
jack4813 kept in the hunt with a hard fought percentage win, edging out
Ninja_Mime in a three-way that included
4avenger5.
Chryo_Spyder edged his way back to the top of the line, besting
Jironobou with a convincing +2 win.
The_Purple_Bunny would have the most compelling case, however, utterly dominating former Champion
CaTigeReptile in a bout that shut her out of a rematch -- a
+13 impact sending shockwaves through the ranks!
No result was more shocking than the challenge issued by relative newcomer,
Sekktor! The promising kombatant paid the price for his industriousness, a victim of the dangerous game that comes with challenging seasoned opponents with low power. Sekktor had made a splash with his extra-curricular activity in the arena, but that XP racked up would not be enough to counter the loss of health that made him a soft target for
m0s3pH! m0s utterly annihilated his challenger, not only reaching the maximum impact of a
+30 win -- but also ending the life of Sekktor in the League's first competitive fatailty!
The IRC Arena now holds Sekktor's only chance to return to competition, where he will have to achieve from the grave to return to life.
1up can be achieved by earning milestone gamerscores, by winning the Daruma 7 mini-game for the first time, or by being active on dates of occult significance (typically in April and August).
JiminyCroquet and
Zmoke used these methods to recover from Arena-based deaths, earlier in the year.
The challenge period for
Week 37 is now open!
October 31 is
Halloween! The Arena will be overcome with beasts and ghouls as the creatures of the night have their day (and eve). The League will fend off these spirits with a ceremonial Battle Royale special, where twenty fighters will be drawn at random to compete for a shot at the KFL Championship! The Battle Royal is a special match where players are drawn to fight in an all-out war, eliminating until one fighter is left standing!
Players can challenge any registered opponent to a bout next Friday, with
1v1,
2v2 and
3-Way match types available to those so inclined. Challenges can be made by fighters new and old. Challenging the reigning KFL Champion will solicit a non-title battle, and delay defense for that week. Signing up is as simple as posting in this thread and declaring your entry into the Internet Relay Kombat Fight League!
Playing is as simple or as involving as you like. Try your lucky hand with the XP you build just from participating on the forum, or improve your fighting potential by teleporting to
the realm of IRC, where the game is always on!
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